People now live their lives like an open wound to be famous - they do bad things because they're rewarded for it.
Interpretation
The quote critiques the obsession with fame and the lengths people will go to achieve it.
Ricky Gervais highlights a societal trend where individuals seek fame at any cost, often engaging in negative or harmful behaviors because they are incentivized by the rewards associated with notoriety. This observation raises questions about values, morality, and the influence of media on personal actions, suggesting that the desire for fame can corrupt and lead to unethical choices.
In practice
In a speech about social media influences, one might say, 'As Ricky Gervais pointed out, people act like an open wound for fame.'
You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, 'I did that.'
It's better to create something that others criticise than to create nothing and criticise others. Go create, have fun!!
Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it knows and it knows what it doesn’t know. It bases its conclusions and beliefs on hard evidence -- evidence that is constantly updated and upgraded. It doesn’t get offended when new facts come along. It embraces the body of knowledge. It doesn’t hold on to medieval practices because they are tradition.
I used to believe in God. The Christian one, that is (There are a few thousand to choose from. But I was born in a country where the dominant religion was Christianity so I believed in that one. Isn't it weird how that always happens?). Luckily I was also interested in science and nature. And reason and logic. And honesty and truth. And equality and fairness. By the age of eight I was an atheist.
A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.
It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
Any dispute in matters of taste usually results in a standoff.
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
Do not neglect this body. This is the house of God; take care of it, only in this body can God be realized.
Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren't interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.
Finally, the intercom crackles and Hatmitch's acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, 'And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.
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